Shine Louise Houston

Shine Louise Houston is a San-Francisco-based queer porn film director. Her films have been compared to Hitchcock and she herself has been described as an auteur of adult cinema. Shine’s work encompasses story-driven feature films, engaging shorts and documentary-style sex-scenes created for the internet. High production values and good acting are a hallmark, though the main focus is always on depicting queer sex in an honest way. She values ethical and collaborative filmmaking, usually shooting unscripted sex scenes guided by the needs and wishes of the performer. Throughout Shine’s career she has worked to bring visibility to queer and trans sexuality within the porn industry. She is considered to be a pioneer of the queer and feminist porn movement.

Bio

Shine Louise Houston is the founding producer and director of Pink & White Productions, the company that runs Crash Pad Series and Pink Label TV. Shine offers a unique vision. Graduating from San Francisco Arts Institute with a Bachelors in Fine Art Film, her works have become the new gold standard of adult cinema. While working at the women-owned adult store Good Vibrations, Shine recognized an underserved demand for an alternative to mainstream pornography, and began to create well-crafted queer made porn. Shine’s films have been recognized among the next big wave of women produced porn and have been internationally screened from Amsterdam to New Zealand.

Shine is also an author. Her work appears in the Human Sexuality Textbook (4th Edition), and books such as A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women in Pornography, Black Female Sexuality, Freeing Ourselves: Brown Boi Project. Her films feature regularly in the mainstream media; her queer porn site CrashPadSeries.com was most recently featured on HBO.

Shine is currently in post-production for her fifth feature film, SNAPSHOT, an erotic suspense thriller starring queer women of color.

Find out more about Shine’s company Pink & White Productions at PinkWhite.biz.

Quotes

“There is power in creating images, and for a woman of color and a queer to take that power… I don’t find it exploitative; I think it’s necessary.”
-Shine Louise Houston

“I believe there’s a lot of room and need to create adult content that’s real, that’s respectful and powerful … I think it’s the perfect place to become political. It’s a place where money, sex, media, and ethics converge.”
-Shine Louise Houston